Tutorial: Create a Web Server and Access It from a Web Client

This tutorial illustrates how to create a web server using a SQL Anywhere database server and then send requests to it from a web client database server.

Required Software

SAP Sybase IQ

Competencies and Experience

Familiarity with XML
Familiarity with MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) types
Basic knowledge of SAP Sybase IQ web services

Goals

Create and start a new SAP Sybase IQ web server database.
Create a web service.
Set up a procedure that returns the information contained in HTTP requests.
Create and start a new SAP Sybase IQ web client database.
Send HTTP:POST requests from the web client to the database server.
Send an HTTP responses from the web server to the web client.

Privileges

The following privileges are required to perform the lessons in this tutorial.

CREATE ANY OBJECT
MANAGE ANY WEB SERVICE

Lesson 1: Setting Up a Web Server to Receive Requests and Send Responses
The goal of this lesson is to set up an SAP Sybase IQ web server running a web service.
Lesson 2: Sending Requests from a Web Client and Receiving Responses
In this lesson, you set up a database client to send requests to a web server using the POST method and to receive the web server's responses.

Parent topic: HTTP Web Service Examples

Created December 19, 2013. Send feedback on this help topic to Technical Publications: pubs@sap.com